“This is the prime of your life..” these words kept ringing through her head as she paced around the store looking for nothing in particular, rather clearing her head from what had just happened back home.

“This is the prime of your life..” her subconscious whispered again. She was an over thinker,deciphering every possibility of failure in every scenario. It was exhausting.

She had met him, t...

Arrogantly he walked into the tavern wearing the same musky clothes he had the night before.. “A beer,” he demanded. No eye contact, no pleasantries. It had been 1 month of monotony. Work, home, tv, sleep, his only friend had moved away and here he was, 35, still working at the same job since he barely graduated high school.

Everyone moved away, moved on, moved up, and his ability to suppress the...

Touch the stove when it’s hot and you’ll get burned. Learning this lesson required blistering and pain that makes every one of my hairs stand up as I walk by a stove that hot and feel the sensation: it’s Scorching, my arm automatically flinches away. Here to I’ve learned that forgiveness is in the now, but my heart and souls flinch at the familiarity of a healing wound being picked, poked and even...